Transition Training in Wivenhoe, Essex

The fantastic 2 day Transition Training takes place in Wivenhoe on 4th and 5th June.

Due to external funding via Community Matters, Transition Town Wivenhoe are offering places for the amazing price of only £10 + £10 returnable deposit!!

Places are filling up so please get in touch if you are interested.

Transition Network Trainers are Marina O'Connell and Gerri Smyth.

Transition Wiv at the University's Green Fair

Come and see Transition Wivenhoe and Transition Colchester at our stand at the University of Essex May Green Fair on Wednesday, May 4th from 10am ‘till 2pm, Square 5. We’ll have demonstrations and info about transition, energy and local food. Our bicycle generators will also be pedal powering a free-to-play Playstation (teaming up once again with local technology recyclers, ML-Solutions).

To cap off the day Transition Wivenhoe and the Revolutionary Bicycle Powered Cinema are transforming the University Lakes into a giant, outdoor cinema for a screening of ‘Home’, the awe inspiring film from the extraordinary photographer behind the Earth from Air series of books and exhibitions, Yann Arthus-Bertrand. If this fine weather we're enjoying holds the combination of outdoor cinema, film and beautiful location should make for a pretty special occasion.

The Movie spins into life at 8:30pm, it's all free and all are welcome.

DIY Bike Power Workshops 2nd and 9th April

Every once in a while Transition Wivenhoe wheels out it's revolutionary pedal-powered cinema (you can come see it in action at the May Fair) and puts on a fun event, like when we teamed up with Moiving Image and screened Ghost Busters on Wivenhoe Quay for Halloween. We reckon we might have built the world's most efficient cinema, we do big screen and big sound to audiences of a few hundred and less using about 100 Watts of energy – about the same as one of those old fashioned light bulbs – so little that it can be powered by a bicycle and a simple renewable energy system. Bicycle Power is a great introduction to renewable energy, physics, bicycles, electricity, education, appropriate technology and lots more. Find out how to do it at one of our workshops at the Wivenhoe Bookshop Shed on the afternoons of the 2nd and the 9th of April. Courses are free (but space is limited) run from the 2pm 'till 5pm and will be followed by a fun activity in the evening. On the 2nd we'll show you how to build your own and on the 9th you'll find out how bicycle power can be used to make things (including brains) whizz and whirl at schools, community events and elsewhere.

hello-bikepower@transitionwivenhoe.org.uk

Create a Greener Home

Transition Town Wivenhoe's Bicycle Powered Cinema is helping the Orchard Barn Project run a day of workshops demonstrating practical approaches to saving money and developing self reliance that will interest Transitioners. Creating a Greener Home Day, Saturday 26th February - Ringshall Village Hall, Suffolk.

http://www.orchardbarn.org.uk